The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-02
HIS OWN UNDERTAKEN.
9enry Kresz Makes All Arrangements
for His Funeral.
From, the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
A funeral cortege wended slowly along
Yesterday afternoon from No 9S4 Central
avenue to Spring Grove Cemetery. To the
casual observer it didn't differ from other
grim funeral professions that daily wend
their way through the streets bearing dust
to dust. To those acquainted with the cir
cumStances it was weird, sad and singular.
II was a funeral cvnTy detail OF which had
been arranged beforehand by the deceased.
The deceased was Henry kresz, the pro
pretor of large restaurant and saloon at
Nos. 9S4 and CSC Central avenue, For the
past four months Kresz, who was man 81
wears old and the father of grown children,
had been alling and complaining, but was
still able to attend to his daily business.
From the symptoms of his complaint the
doctors diagnosed liver complaint, presum-
ably a tumOr on the liver. The trouble
grew more and more aggravated, until some
DAYS ago the attending physicians decided
an operation to be
THE ONE LAST EXPEDIENT
left to medical science. The patient, eager
to live grasped at this one chance ms the ia
bled drowning man at n straw. thursday
last was the day appointed for the opera
ton. As the day that was TO decide the life
or death for him approached, the patient be-
gan to make the most complete and system
attic arrangements to meet the worst, should
it come The GOODNESS and courage that the
man displayed were most remarkable. He
settled all his worldly affairs and
MADE HIS WILL.
He gave minute directions as to the style
of coffin, should the operation bring death,
and not recovery, in which he was to be
laid He ordered that his grave should be
cemented He selected Philip Meyder to
officiate at the organ at his obsequies, and
directed that the funeral services should he
held in the hall above his place of business.
These and all other final details attended TO,
he stepped up TO his bar Thursday morning
the morning of the day appointed for the
operation, which meant to him
TINE OR ETERNITY.
this world or the next-and invited all pres
ent to have something with him, saying,
Boys, have a drink with me; it may he the
last one" The parting bumper was drank
in the silence of sad hearts, for kresz was
popular among his acquaintance, and well
liked and esteemed by all who knew him.
He then, before the arrival of the surgeons,
went so far as even to prepare the operating
table on which he was TO be laid. The opera
ton was performed at 10 o'clock Thursday
morning, Doctors Conner, Mitchell aud Car
son officiating.
THE SURGEONS FOUND
that the diagnosis of the case had been a
correct one The patient was suffering
from tumor on the liver. The operation
further revealed that to attempt to remove
the tumor would certainly prove fatal,
while to allow it to remain undsturbed
would as surely produce death within ten
days, at the very outside. They, of course,
chose the latter alternative. The keen
knives were sheathed. the cases of surgical
instruments closed, and the patient was left
to the inevitable. He fingered, conscious
and clear of intellect, through Thursday
aud Thursday night and up TO II o'clock
Friday morning, when he expired The
burial yesterday was just rs the deceased
had directed it. Kresz leaves a wife and
six full-grOwn children.